Therapist Professional Advisory Committee Professional Development Committee |
The mission of the Professional Development Committee is to improve therapist's professional expertise and guide career advancement.
Chair: CAPT Jessie Whitehurst Lief jwlief@bop.gov
Subcommittees and Task Forces under this committee include:
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Co-Chairs: LCDR Jessica Feda jfeda@bop.gov
LT Felipe Zamarron fzamarron@bop.gov
The Education Subcommittee facilitates and coordinates educational opportunities for therapists, COF Annual Symposium Category Day, and obtains Continuing Education Credit.
The committee also has provided information on the Mongomery GI Bill and how those resources can be used to fund additional education.
The committee is in the process of developing an advanced practice website. Contributions from the field are needed to continually update the site and maintain its currency and relvance. Instructions are provided within each site. There are separate pages for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and a combined page for speech language pathology and audiology. They hope to add respiratory therapy in the future as this new discipline grows within the commission corps.
This subcommittee also coordinates information about long term training opportunities. The subcommittee has developed a report containing General Information for therapists considering long-term training. Long term training applications for each academic year typically are due to OCCO in the late winter/early spring. The deadline in 2008 is March 31. Additional information is available in the accompanying pdf files including an information memo, info on the 1662 form, and general information about the types of training available.
Chair: CDR Eric Payne epayne@bop.gov
The Mentoring Program is designed to promote mentoring skills and to assist with the integration of junior officers and civilian therapists into the US Public Health Service.
Chair: CAPT James Standish James.W.Standish@uscg.mil
The Awards Subcommittee is responsible for soliciting and reviewing nominations and selecting candidates to receive the four category awards that are presented at the category luncheon at the COA Professional Conference each year.
Retirement Recognition Subcommittee
Chair: CDR Cindy Carter cindy.carter@ihs.gov
The Retirement Recognition Subcommittee recognizes Therapist Officers each year with a formal ceremony held at the COA Professional Conference and provides each officer with documents to acknowledge their years of service to the corps. Please see the list of previous honorees .
Promotion Preparation Subcommittee
Chair: CDR Michelle Jordan Garner MJordan@hrsa.gov
The Promotion Preparation Subcommittee develops materials and documents that support officers in preparing for promotion review each year. There is a recommended format for the curriculum vitae and cv cover sheet with guide to complete it that officers are advised to follow when submitting these documents to their OPF. (Last updated December 2006) There also is a recommended format for listing your continuing education and training in your OPF. Finally, in December 2006, a new checklist was developed to assist officers in career development and promotion preparation. (These documents are in pdf format.)
The annual Commissioned Officers' Effectiveness Report (COER) is another OPF document in the OPF that is reviewed by promotion boards. Officers have an opportunity to present themselves annually to both their rater and the promotion board via Attachment I of the COER. Officers may consult the attached guidance developed by the CPOs in developing their attachment.
Benchmarks are the criteria that the promotion board will use to
evaluate officers. They were first established during the 2004 Promotion Year.
Relative weightings used during that promotion cycle are shown in parentheses.
Details of the benchmarks are category-specific and are updated yearly. PY 2009
benchmarks are available for review in pdf format.
Officers in the Reserve Corps interested in applying for assimilation to the Regular Corps are advised to consult the CCMIS web page and additional program information (pdf format document). Please consult February 2005 information updated by OCCO along with the corrected checklist and an OCCO approved sample application memo, and a CDC generated comparison between the regular and reserve corps (all in pdf format).
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